Word: monasticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christian hermits began to settle on Athos about the middle of the 9th century. In 959 St. Athanasios, a learned monk, fled to the peace of the Holy Mount rather than accept an appointment as confessor to the Byzantine Emperor. There, he said, the Virgin appeared before him and promised...
One of the monasteries has conceded to progress by installing electricity. Otherwise, life on the mountain seems hardly to have changed in centuries. The work of Athos is prayer, and work it can be: in more than one monastery, the common recitation of the Divine Office takes between eight and...
Some churchmen, depressed by the decline of monastic vocations, fear that life on Mount Athos is not likely to last for another 100 years, much less a thousand. The monks themselves are unimpressed-possibly because the same dire predictions were made back in the 19th century, when the mountain'...
The monastic order does not compete with the outside world-one either believes in it or he does not. Novices do not live outside the monastery, and Harvard undergraduates do not live out of the Houses. Harvard has invested so much money and effort in its system of residential education...
To move beyond the monolithic House system and beyond the monastic initiation of young men, the Masters will need courage and humility: to believe that the life of the mind has vitality outside the cloister and to admit that the single system to which they have devoted themselves is not...